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Physicist Publishes Article Bashing Science as a Tool of White Male Oppression

8/11/2017

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​I read yesterday that Seth Myers is planning a reboot of The Munsters for NBC, and in this new version the Universal monster family won’t be living in the suburbs but in a trendy Brooklyn hipster neighborhood where the characters will struggle to fit in with decade-old hipster stereotypes. I’m not entirely sure that this will work as well as Myers hopes, and I get that the show revolves around the Munsters because they are an NBC Universal property. However, the plot might better fit the rival Addams Family, who are, basically, hipsters a half century too early. Consider: The Addams Family have an eclectic and retro fashion sense. They collect antiques and oddities, and they prefer handmade artisanal products to anything mass produced. They distrust Western medicine and prefer shamans and natural cures. They eat exotic foods from foreign cultures and practice Eastern meditation techniques. They favor wetland preservation and flirt with homeschooling. By today’s standards, their “normal” neighbors, who recoiled in fear, are now the odd ones. I’m not sure the Munsters will fit the template quite as well without some serious retrofitting. After all, they only looked bizarre; in every other respect they aspired to be as boring as the Addams’s neighbors.
​But what really got my goat yesterday was a terrible article that a physicist published in Slate magazine decrying science as a biased tool of white male power, a system of belief that systematically portrays itself as objective while denigrating the special ways of knowing of women and minorities. Basically, it was the usual postmodern bullshit raised to another level because the author is herself a scientist and somehow thinks her own discipline is a useless tool of evil white men.
 
The problem is that Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a particle physicist who is also an activist for minority participation in science, seems to purposely misunderstand what science is in order to create “science,” a semi-fictitious faith-based ideology of the elite that bears only a partial resemblance to the traditional definition of science. In short, she mistakes the sociocultural uses and applications of scientific research for the actual practice of scientific research itself. This is something she pretty much admits in the nut graf of her article: “Science’s greatest myth is that it doesn’t encode bias and is always self-correcting. In fact, science has often made its living from encoding and justifying bias, and refusing to do anything about the fact that the data says something’s wrong.” Note the mistaken use of science as the subject of the sentence, as though it were an active, living organism with thoughts and ideas. Science does not make a living or try to justify bias; bad or biased scientists certainly do, but to say so is to admit that science is not at fault but the sociocultural beliefs of the people who use it.
 
To put it another way: Imagine a chainsaw. We can use it to clear a forest, which is destructive but often necessary. We can use it to shape bushes into topiary, which is unnecessary but often beautiful. Or Leatherface can use it to turn teenagers into luncheon meat. It does not follow to therefore argue that the chainsaw “makes its living from turning teenagers to luncheon meat, and refusing to do anything about the fact that the resulting sandwiches taste bad.” One might imagine that Leatherface is more to blame than the chainsaw, and racist and sexist old white male scientists than the science itself.
 
Prescod-Weinstein is of that postmodern liberal school that thinks that political advocacy for liberal causes is fair and unbiased, but any other attitude is by definition biased. The hypocrisy is such that it takes away from her actual good point: She claims, beneath intemperate language, that scientists should be forced to study the cultural context in which science is practiced, to understand how cultural attitudes toward race, class, and gender and have shaped the type of research questions scientists have asked and how they have skewed the results, either unconsciously or through purposeful bias, to conform to those attitudes. We have seen this time and again in looking at how Victorian scientists somehow ended up with anthropological and biological results that confirmed the necessity of white supremacy and imperial conquest. But Prescod-Weinstein doesn’t see this as a lesson to be learned to correct current practices but rather as evidence that science itself is fundamentally flawed unless scientific education becomes an adjunct of liberal politics:
It is the rare scientific education that includes a simultaneous conversation about the rise of violent, imperialist globalization during the same time period. Very few curricula acknowledge that some European scientific “discoveries” were in fact collations of borrowed indigenous knowledge. And far too many universally call technology progress while failing to acknowledge that it has left us in a dangerously warmed climate.
​The problem with her argument here is that imperialism, climate change, etc. are not issues that science can opine upon in terms of judging whether they are “good” or “bad.” They are moral and ethical issues, to be sure, and science can evaluate the consequences of specific choices humans make, but it cannot tell us whether to consider the results good or bad. The other point about Europeans stealing indigenous knowledge is another ambiguous bit of liberal fantasy, mixing together genuine instances when non-white peoples contributed directly to Euro-American scientific and technological development with fantasy claims more closely aligned with pseudoscientific fringe history. Her pronouncement that Europeans uniformly stole these without acknowledgement oversimplified a very complex story to score political points. But even at face value, the origin of scientific data should not affect whether they are true and can be replicated and confirmed. It is of political and cultural interest, but it is not an arbiter of truth.
 
The article makes many more bad points, but I will leave those for you to discover.
35 Comments
TONY S.
8/11/2017 09:52:46 am

Lovely. Just what we need right now, more undermining of Science and its institutions.

If I was as paranoid as Wolter, I'd think there was a conspiracy afoot...

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Americanegro
8/11/2017 12:55:30 pm

"Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a particle physicist who is also an activist for minority participation in science"

Is it possible that she really means "too many Jews"? I'd be interested to know what minority she wants more participation from.

When she says "Very few curricula acknowledge that some European scientific “discoveries” were in fact collations of borrowed indigenous knowledge" providing a list would have strengthened her argument. Absent a list, I dismiss it.

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Uncle Ron
8/11/2017 08:38:16 pm

I don't know how she defines minority but as a regular reader of Science News magazine I can attest that there are scientists whose names indicate a multitude of ethnicities writing, and being written about, in every issue.

As far as "scientific discoveries <that> were in fact collations of borrowed indigenous knowledge," I think she is referring to a researcher noting that certain native tribesmen chewed a particular plant leaf when he had a headache. After years of work in his lab the researcher isolated and synthesized Excedrin and didn't give the natives any credit. It's the old "white men raped the planet" lament.

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Americanegro
8/12/2017 02:35:09 pm

No one "synthesized Excedrin". Excedrin is aspirin and caffeine. Tighten up, won't you?

David Bradbury
8/12/2017 03:41:05 pm

The principal pain-relieving ingredient of Excedrin is paracetamol.

Uncle Ron
8/12/2017 04:36:55 pm

I was being facetious. I have no idea how Excedrin was developed. Lighten up.

Americanegro
8/13/2017 02:08:21 am

"The principal pain-relieving ingredient of Excedrin is paracetamol."

No, you great limey nancy-mary. A, "Excedrin" is no longer sold in the U.S. B, what is called "paracetamol" in your country is called Tylenol or acetaminophen here. I strongly urge you to mix a lot of it with alcohol.

Excedrin WAS aspirin and caffeine.

David Bradbury
8/13/2017 04:10:38 am

There may be a point you're missing here.

Crash55
8/13/2017 02:12:10 pm

Excedrin IS still sold in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excedrin_(brand)

It contains acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine

Americanegro
8/13/2017 07:36:33 pm

NO, it is goddam em effing not. EVERY Excedrin brand has extra words. "Excedrin" is not sold in the U.S. Do not step to me, son.

Crash55
8/13/2017 07:57:01 pm

Are you really that brain dead? They create lots of specialized versions and that means it is no longer sold? So I guess Extra Strength Tylenol is not Tylenol?

You are without a doubt a moron

Americanegro
8/14/2017 03:57:56 am

Yes, Extra Strength Tylenol is not Tylenol. Do you not understand words?

David Bradbury
8/14/2017 05:33:59 pm

Most of us not only understand words, we understand combinations of words.

Crash55
8/14/2017 05:41:28 pm

Not worth wasting your time. If someone doesn't recognize the difference between different products and different dosages they aren't worth dealing with.

Bob Jase
8/11/2017 01:46:11 pm

I hope the Munsters reboot won't be as bad as the last attempt (1313 Mockingbird Road) which forgot it was a comedy.

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terry the censor
8/19/2017 12:22:49 pm

Only the Eddie Izzard parts were good.

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RiverM
8/11/2017 01:56:11 pm

The Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome is strong within even those who's life work is based on facts.

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Only Me
8/11/2017 02:07:19 pm

Ah, yes, the "evil white men" canard again.

Activists like Prescod-Weinstein will never be satisfied. They know there's something wrong with the world, they just need to find it because first world problems. This mindset is how ideas like air conditioning is sexist get born.

I agree the Addams Family would be a better choice, but given the horrible reboots Hollywood has been coughing up, I wouldn't hold out high hopes.

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Kal
8/11/2017 04:11:11 pm

Ironically if she worked for Google for another 8 years, they would lay her off, as in fire her, for being over 40. They do that regardless of gender. True story. At least they did it here in the valley.

Also it's likely she is Jewish, so the comment about that is likely sarcasm.

As a particle physicist, she has all the knowledge of cultural off place dynamics? She studies how atomic particles move in space, not social biology and psychology of workforce ethics. How does she know anything about that? Oy.

I hadn't thought of the Addams family as hipsters. It's more like hipsters are modern Gothics, and the Addams' were Gothic. Munsters I always thought was more of a rip off of Addams anyway.

1313 sucked.

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Crash55
8/11/2017 07:36:28 pm

Many sciences have nothing to do with cultural influences. I can't see how physics or any of the hard sciences can be skewed by cultural biases.

I am a research engineer working in advanced materials, The only societal impact possible would be if I neglected sources of new materials based on the sources background. That would only hurt my ability to achieve my goals.

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Jason Colavito link
8/11/2017 08:34:43 pm

Well, one might argue that there are potential sources of bias in the research questions that the hard sciences choose to pursue. Are they pursuing questions that align with dominant cultural ideologies rather than those that align with marginalized groups, thus producing a body of knowledge that, while accurate and true, is designed to help or support one group more than another. I'm not saying this is the case, but if you were a critic of science, this is the line of argument you would use.

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Crash55
8/11/2017 08:57:36 pm

Basic research is basic research. How does pursuing a unified field theory align with one cultural more than another? Or trying to find properties of a new nano-particle? Or studying black holes?

My recent work has been on microwave response of carbon-nanoparticle to make a reusable adhesive. My applied on advanced materials for weapon systems. You could say the latter is aligned with government goals (they are my employer) but the former is harder to tie to any societal goals. The best I could see would be to say that only well off people / companies could make use of it.

An Over-Educated Grunt
8/11/2017 09:14:33 pm

I think in that case her point has to do more with how research funding gets awarded, but, again, I don't think you can go to grad school these days and claim that non-white people are underrepresented. If you were to narrow the field to American citizens only, that might change the information some, but that's not what she said, she said science as a monolith.

Crash55
8/11/2017 09:39:09 pm

I know that at least in engineering fields white males are a minority in top grad schools. Lack of US citizens can actually be a real problem for professors as som research grants require US citizens

OCS
8/11/2017 10:57:08 pm

"Or studying black holes"

That is obviously racial :)

Titus pullo
8/11/2017 09:45:53 pm

Oh yes the dig whistle of "white male". We all know where ms weinstein is going. She could add "christian or gentle". Its always funny to me how liberal jews scream about the need for diversity yet dont actually practice it when it impacts the fields they are overrepresented. Whats good for the goose? Id rather drop this maexist notion of enforced diversity and focus on the individual. As an american of italian background i only want to be judged on myself not historical constructs.

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Americanegro
8/11/2017 11:23:20 pm

Do they not teach proofreading in Italy?

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Titus pullo
8/12/2017 06:51:28 pm

Rather its forgetting my reading glasses on vacation! And my inability to text very well on an iphone. But point taken. I was a little pissed when i read jason's post

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Americanegro
8/13/2017 02:15:40 am

NEVER ask me about my text. Lurch loves backfat. You know who's really hot and never gettable by me? Physicist Lisa Randall. I just like knowing she's out there.

A C
8/12/2017 03:29:52 am

Really Jason? Unless the article you linked has been retracted, practically nothing in your rant is actually in there.

No where in the article is science decried as being inherently a tool of 'male white power'. You're straw manning her based on bad arguments other people may have made. No where does she say minorities have a special way of knowing that's as valid as the scientific method, she only talks about minorities having a bad time in scientific institutions.

'The totality of a branch of human knowledge' is a correct use of the word 'science'. That's what she means when she says bad things about 'science' in a general sense. Its clear from the rest of the article that she supports 'science' as a process (the meaning of the word you're trying to insist is the only valid one).

These are the actual points she makes per paragraph

1. Many women regularly encounter sexist politics that justify themselves with claims to scientific authority. (which could be anecdotal but is probably an appeal to a study and therefore a pro-science comment)

2. Her science courses allowed the author to idealize science (which is anecdotal but its an opinion piece and she's clear about it being anecdotal).

3. Continuation of anecdote + remark on evolutionary psychology being shit. Most scientists know evolutionary psychology is a load of shit so she's hardly attacking science on that one.

4. Evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology were historically tied up with racism. More anecdote. Then accusation of misogyny on the part of evolutionary psychologists (which isn't substantiated at all in the article but if you're familiar with the branch of bullshit she's referencing it doesn't have to be).

5. Call for people to use good science to counter misogynist science. Accusation that scientific institutions and professionals are often hypocrites (which she doesn't justify but there's good evidence for it).

Calling someone a hypocrite means you think what they stand for is potentially a good thing. Its not an attack on science at all to hold scientists up to their own standards.

6. Point about science education being bad at history. Its a political point to say that people need to actually learn up to date history, but its an opinion piece by an activist so its what you'd expect from the article's genre. Nonspecific claim about European scientists incorporating other people's knowledge into their discoveries. She NEVER says that this means folk medicine is as valid as scientific medicine, she's just being critical of a lack of respect in cases where scientific methods prove specific folk remedies to be effective. Paragraph ends with a anecdotal claim that science education prefers to talk about progress rather than examine drawbacks.

7. Claim that the science (in the sense of knowledge) conducted by white men working for imperial states had sexist assumptions. Attack on Jefferson for being a slave owning rapist.

8. Exasperated point that anecdotal evidence implies to her that we haven't fully escaped from 18th century thinking. Lots of anecdotes about how sexism and racism hinders minority from engaging in all the good things science could do (so not an attack on science at all, just on certain scientists and the collective bodies made up of those scientists).

9. Citation of actual studies that she claims backs up her anecdotes.

10. Summary returning to the original point (that the whole thing is just a reply to another story about a memo). Call for people to hold misogynists accountable to the evidence. Political statement about feminist reforms.

If you're problem is that you're angry because you had to read opinions and anecdotes in your journalism, don't read journalism.

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Jason Colavito link
8/12/2017 07:51:24 am

But you have used the same fallacy that she did. In both cases you are conflating science, meaning the practice of investigating the material world using the scientific method, with institutional academia, which indeed suffers from many of the sins you have outlined above. Her beef isn't with science as a way of knowing, though that is how it comes off, but rather with the institutions of academia and government research organizations. They are not synonymous.

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David Bradbury
8/12/2017 11:24:44 am

"remark on evolutionary psychology being shit. Most scientists know evolutionary psychology is a load of shit"
No, she refers specifically to "the uses and abuses" of evolutionary psychology, which is not inherently a load of shit. In that respect she's on Jason's side !

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Americanegro
8/12/2017 02:32:13 pm

Jeeze Louise, A C, make an effing point or shut the eff up.

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Kal
8/13/2017 02:06:08 pm

Is there a moderator on this blog?

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David Bradbury
8/13/2017 04:55:24 pm

Are you volunteering to cover weekends for Jason?

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